Math Kickers

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0.7 times more fun than doing actual math!

Math Kickers featuring the Algebros is a mini-game from Videlectrix from Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People's Strong Badia The Free. The cover art for the fictional box of the game features two martial arts fighters in a city-themed background, a kid smiling in the foreground, and another martial arts fighter over a quadratic formula in the sky.

In the game, you play as two fighters, Dex and Ryu, facing back to back. Dex subtracts and Ryu will add, and the goal is to fight Ninjas and attack number bosses.

A score of 2000 is required for your Awesomeness rank.

Controls

Wii Controls

Hold The Wii Remote Sideways

D-Pad: Moves Dex/Ryu

1: Dex Attack

2: Ryu Attack

+: Start the Game

-: Quit the Game

PC Controls

Arrows: Move Dex/Ryu

Z: Dex Attack

X: Ryu Attack

S: Start the Game

Q: Quit the Game

Spacebar: Pause the Game

How To Play

Dex's attacks subtract ninjas from his side. Ryu's Energy Ball Attack adds ninjas to his side. The idea is to restore the balance.

Example:

3 Ninjas on Left, 1 Ninja on Right: 3 ≠ 1

Dex subtracts one Ninja from his side: 3 - 1 ≠ 1

Ryu adds one Ninja to his side: 3 - 1 = 1 + 1

When the Balance is restored, all the Ninjas will disappear, and Dex and Ryu can move on.

After several waves of Ninjas, Dex and Ryu will split up for a boss battle against a quadratic equation. The equation will attack by lifting up into the air and slamming into the ground – be sure to be out of the way when this happens! Attack the equation a bunch, and it will eventually solve itself, and you'll move on to the next level.

As you level up, the going gets tougher, as the Ninjas and Bosses get stronger.

You start the game with 6 "Bros" and lose a Bro every time Dex or Ryu take damage from the ninjas, who throw mathematical operators at you. When all your bros are gone, your game is over.

Manual

Fun Facts

Goofs

Uber-Pope

• Math Kickers has a bug in it that causes a secret rank to occur ([]ber/Uber-Pope) See here.

Glitches

• Math Kickers has a bug that occurs randomly in the game, where it will stop responding to directional buttons and attacks, only allowing you to pause or quit the game.
• PC version only: Pausing the game and entering the command for Polar Coordinates will cause Polar Coordinates to be performed as soon as the game is unpaused. Since enemy attacks are frozen while paused, and Dex and Ryu are invincible when performing Polar Coordinates, this essentially allows the player to get an infinite amount of points.

Real-World References

• The game strongly resembles Double Dragon for Nintendo.